Data Center Engineering Technician for 99.999% Uptime

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Hermiston (OR); On-site; USD 45,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Oregon is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to protect mission-critical facilities and ensure 24/7 uptime. You will monitor electrical, mechanical systems, support troubleshooting, and work with vendors and contractors across multiple sites.

Key duties include rounds, BMS/EPMS monitoring, rack installs, PM, root-cause analyses, and change-management documentation. Travel between data centers is required, with potential on-call rotations and relocations as

Qualifications

• 1+ years of electrical or mechanical, or 1+ years of data center or mission-critical facilities experience
• Travel between data centers required
• Willingness to relocate or travel as needed

Responsibilities

• Daily building rounds to monitor electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment to ensure 24/7 reliability and availability
• Monitor Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Management System (EPMS)
• Assist in troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Perform rack installs and rack decommissioning within internal SLA
• Perform PM, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and repair of electrical and mechanical equipment
• Technical writing to support change management program
• Monitor daily work requests and manage to resolution, and execute projects from conception to completion
• On-site support of contractors, sub-contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation
• Work schedule changes depending on specific site needs. Shifts can be up to 12-hours and may rotate on a predefined schedule. Some locations have on-call rotations.
• Role may support more than one location/site.

Skills

Electrical experience

Mechanical experience

Data center experience

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Oregon is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to protect mission-critical facilities and ensure 24/7 uptime. You will monitor electrical, mechanical systems, support troubleshooting, and work with vendors and contractors across multiple sites.

Key duties include rounds, BMS/EPMS monitoring, rack installs, PM, root-cause analyses, and change-management documentation. Travel between data centers is required, with potential on-call rotations and relocations as